45. Fossilized roots
It's like going to the exhibition hall and seeing the dinosaur skeleton specimens. This is supposed to be the fossilized skeleton of the hourglass. I didn't speak, and quietly stepped back.
We walked as quietly as we could, because we were really afraid of a few more hourglasses. We didn't go far before we saw another pile of bones, and then another ,γγγ
It's like a graveyard for hourglasses, there are a lot of monster bones and human bones, if these hourglasses were still alive, we would have died a long time ago, this place is too scary, thinking about it, I quickened my pace.
After a while, we saw an arch in front of us, and the walls of the arch were carved with a lot of Egyptian characters and patterns, and some Egyptian soldiers could be seen throwing many people into a big mouth, and the big mouth looked like an hourglass monster we had seen...
Could it be that someone in ancient times kept these hourglass monsters? It's cruel!
I was looking at it, and suddenly I felt as if water was dripping from my shoulder, and I was startled, and when I looked up, I saw a big mouth rushing towards me!!
The liquid in the big mouth was still falling, there were countless teeth in the mouth, I screamed, squatted down quickly, the dust wind reacted very quickly, and came up and cut the mouth in half with a knife. When I looked again, I saw that it was a small hourglass that had been cut in half, only to see that it had twitched a few times and then did not move.
Suddenly, another thing fell, and it swooped down on the hourglass monster that we had cut in half. It's the other one! And he's eating the dead one!!
Then another one pounced and competed with the one in front of him. Dustwind and I slowly retreated towards the arch and looked overhead.
There are dozens of small hourglass monsters on it! All with their mouths open. Dustwind and I immediately turned around and ran, and as we ran, Dustwind used our darts to knock out the hourglass monster that caught up, and I saw that as soon as one was killed, the others would pounce and eat the dead one. This, what a primitive creature this is, even its own kind eats !!
Fortunately, there was exercise, and I finally caught up with the footsteps of the dust wind, and after we ran out of a long and slender passage, I confirmed that those things did not catch up, so I dared to sit on the ground, panting and relieving my strength.
At this time, we took a good look at the scene in front of us. Turning on the flashlight and shining around, we found that we came to a large underground space, to be more precise, it seemed to be a large forest of tree roots.
Unable to return, we had to continue onward, passing through the gaps in the roots. Occasionally touching these roots, it felt like touching a hard stone, and I gently touched it with my fingers, and sure enough, it was like a stone, has it become a fossil?
We walked a little further, and suddenly there was a crackle under our feet, and when we looked, there was actually water. Shine a flashlight on it, and the black area is full of water, and there is actually groundwater here?
But it's not surprising that the Nile has been able to flow for thousands of years, and it must have been supported by groundwater. I found a broken root and began to test the depth, and found that the further I went, the deeper I went, and it seemed that if I continued to swim through. No way, we looked at each other and nodded in acknowledgment. Take out the waterproof bag from the backpack, put everything that can't be waterproof in it, seal it, and start wading in. The water was very clear, and after we walked, it brought up a lot of mud, and at the back, the water ended up above the height and became very deep. Had to start swimming. Afraid of undercurrents, I occasionally grabbed the fossilized roots that reached into the water. The dust wind swam very fast, and I tried to follow.
After swimming for a while, I felt fine. I was about to take a break by grabbing the roots. Suddenly! Something got tangled in my feet!
Before I could react, I was thrown into the water. The sudden sinking made me drink a few sips of water directly. The body reacted immediately, with a hard kick on my feet, and quickly slid towards the water, and when my head poked out of the water, I quickly took a breath, but before I could make a sound, I was dragged down again, and it kept sinking, and just when I couldn't hold my breath, something grabbed my legs, and I was pulled, and the force of my ankles was loosened. I hurriedly swiped up. When I came out of the water, I breathed hard, grabbed the roots, and coughed incessantly, and the water choked in my nose was too uncomfortable. The dust wind also came out of the water, and I saw that he was holding a knife in his hand, and it was supposed that he had just saved me.
"Climb up!" With that, he suddenly sank into the water again.
Is he also entangled? I climbed a few times to the root of the tree, but I was still not at ease.
"Maniac!" I shouted, and in order to see clearly, I quickly found the ball of light, lit it up, and threw it into the water.
After the ball of light fell into the water, it slowly sank to the bottom of the water, and the brightness of the ball of light was very high, and I saw a lot of tentacle-like black shadows swinging in the water, and suddenly retracted when it was close to the bright light. I saw that after Dusty Wind cut off one of the entangled tentacles with a knife, he jumped out of the water and immediately climbed to the root of the tree. Seeing that I didn't move, he shouted:
"Climb now! Don't stop! β
I hurriedly climbed up, the brightness of the ball of light illuminated the sky through the water, and the vision became clear, and we climbed up smoothly, but when I turned around, I saw a huge umbrella-like shadow in the water slowly unfolding, and then many tentacles stretched out!
The tentacles stretched out very fast, some of them had already surpassed us, and after these tentacles wrapped around the roots of the tree, they began to climb up with the huge umbrella-like object. Holy, can this monster get out of the water?!!
As I was looking, I suddenly noticed that a tentacle was reaching up next to me, and several small suction cups-like tubes were sticking out of this tentacle, and something was wrapped around it. I fixed my eyes, and it turned out to be a person! The man's face was less than 10 centimeters away from me!
Damn! I was so scared that I almost fell. The man's face had turned white, and the place where it had been sucked had begun to become sunken. Could it be that he is slowly being eaten?
Hey! Wait, isn't this old man who came out with the patriarch to explore the way! Long beard with sand sticking to it. Have they also been attacked? Brother Dong, they are fine, they are a little uneasy in their hearts, but they don't stop with their hands, and they keep climbing up. Thanks to the general's training, it is much easier to get up now than before, although it is not as good as the dust and wind, but at least it is no longer a drag oil bottle.
After crawling for a while, I turned around and found that the monster was still following! As I turned around and continued to climb, suddenly, a tentacle grabbed my arm. I was pulled and my body was crooked, and I had to rely on my other arm to pull the roots.
Worst! I can't hold a knife right now. The force of being pulled was so great that my hands couldn't reach my waist. Frozen like this, watching the monster below get closer and closer, the surface of the umbrella was a myriad of wriggling straws! Very disgusting! And I began to panic in my heart, and shouted "Damn! "I'm reaching the limit of my strength!
At a loss, I began to kick the tentacle wrapped around my arm with one foot, but unexpectedly, another tentacle came and wrapped my foot as well, and it was the tentacle with the corpse. Not good! Can't hold it!
Just as he was about to shout the dust wind, a flash of light flew by, and a dart pierced the tentacles. The tentacle immediately let go of my arm, and I took out the gun from my waist, held it in my hand, grabbed it several times, opened the tentacles on my feet, and quickly climbed up, and kept turning around and shooting with the gun as I crawled. But it was too much physical exertion, and the two arms began to sore, and the roots of the tree were very high, and I didn't know how long I was going to climb. With Dustwind's abilities, he had no problem escaping, but I was almost at the limit.
Hurry up and find a way, what to do? What to do? Suddenly, remembering the ** in my bag, I immediately raised my head and shouted at the dust wind.
"Crazy man, cover me, I'll blow it up."
After saying that, I gritted my teeth and climbed up a few steps quickly, fixed myself firmly with a rope, and began to look for **.
When Dusty Wind waited for me to come up, he crossed his legs around the roots of the tree, leaned his upper body backwards, and looked like an upside-down golden bell, and his hands began to shoot at the outstretched tentacles with darts incessantly. His defense was impeccable, but I could tell his forehead was drenched in sweat.
I didn't dare to delay the time, grabbed a piece of **, quickly pressed the detonator, and threw it at the monster, the moment I touched the monster, I quickly detonated. I thought, go to your uncle, goodbye to you.
Bang! There was a loud bang, and then a ball of flames erupted.
What surprised me was that this ** was too powerful. Dust Wind and I were pushed up directly by the impact airflow, but fortunately, Dust Wind grabbed me and I didn't fall.
After holding it firmly, I looked down, and the monster was gone, and there were still some tentacles floating on the surface of the water and smoking, and from time to time there was some smell of grilled seafood.
"I'll go, this ** is a bit strong, fortunately it's far away, otherwise it will be roasted together."
With that, I looked at Dustwind. But he looked at me and immediately turned his head to the side.
"Huh? What's wrong with you? "What's wrong with him? Hurt? I hurriedly grabbed him by the shoulder. But he climbed up. I was puzzled and climbed up with it. After climbing for a while, we climbed all the way to stop, after drilling a very small hole, we actually climbed to the top of the root system, the space is still relatively open, the artificial stone masonry is obvious, it seems that this is the real pyramid inside.
Dustwind lit a fire and began to take off his wet clothes. I quickly unloaded my bag, walked over to him, and said "What happened to you just now?" while taking off my wet clothes. Hurt? β
Dusty Wind didn't speak, took out the sealed bag, took out his phone, took a picture at me, and handed it to me.
I took my phone and looked at it, and I was gone! Who is this, and what is the difference between blacks. Except for my eyeballs and teeth, I was all black, and my hair was blown up.
"Damn, madman, were you just laughing at me?"
Dusty Wind still didn't speak, squatted down, covered his mouth with his hand, and looked down at the side.
I threw the phone to him, "You have to laugh, you can laugh if you want to, why are you holding back, really, the first time you play **, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes." After saying that, I ignored him and began to dry my clothes by the fire. I thought, this guy doesn't let people see when he laughs, he's really stingy. After the emotional tension just now, I was a little confused. Looking at the watch again, it was 4 o'clock in the morning, no wonder I was a little tired.
The dust wind told me to rest first, and then I changed shifts. After a few hours of rest, we continued on our way.
All the way is a narrow cemetery. Suddenly I thought of something, took out my mobile phone and quickly looked at it, because it was deep underground, I couldn't receive the location, will it be better now?
Sure enough, I saw two other red dots on the screen, which should be Brother Dong and Sister Yue, and I was instantly relieved. I'll show it to Dustwind.
"Can you tell the distance?" Dustwind asked.
"I look at it, it doesn't seem to be far, it's almost two kilometers in a straight line, but we may not be able to get there in a straight line." I looked around me, the road in the tomb was long, and I didn't know where to turn.
"Let's go as far as we can towards them."
"Okay." I nodded.
We move on, and whenever there is a fork in the road, we determine which way to go, depending on where they are. After walking for a long time, the distance between me and them has only narrowed a little. Are they also on the move?
Why didn't they come to us? I was confused.
"Crazy, we haven't come much closer to them. Looks like they didn't come to us... In this case, there are only two situations, either they are in danger and can only go in one direction; Either someone told them to go that way. We need to be faster. β
After saying that, Dustwind and I both quickened our pace.
The tombs of the Egyptians were built square, probably because they were piled up directly with stones in the pyramids. After an hour, we were all a little tired from walking, the tomb road became smaller and shorter, and the road changed from stone paved to dirt road, and from dirt road to dirt cave that we could only bend over.
"Crazy, will there be no way forward?"
"If you look around, this kind of hole looks a lot like an escape." The dust wind touched the walls of the dirt cave.
Chenfeng's words reminded me of a saying that the Egyptians, like ancient China, would use people to accompany the burial in the slave society, especially the people who dug up the tombs, and basically died in the tombs in the end. Some people will dig some passages to escape in order to survive, are we walking?
"Crazy, you said that if we walked like this, would we get out of the groundγγγγγ" Before I could finish speaking, I felt my backpack being pulled along, and I stopped suddenly, and the moment I looked up, I saw a withered hand stopped in front of me.
"Ahγγh I stepped back in an instant. I broke out in a cold sweat... But the hand didn't move. If you look closely, it looks like there are a lot of white strips of cloth tied to that hand.
"Let's go, stand back, let's go the other way." Dustwind whispered, pulling my backpack and continuing to retreat.
He had barely taken five steps back when he saw a number of white stripes like shrouds emerging around the withered hand.
"Quick!" Dustwind shouted.
We ran as we rolled over, and the low caves limited our speed. And those white bars are rushing along the walls like us!
Just as the white bars were about to touch me, I was suddenly pulled and flipped into the passage next to me, and Dusty Wind threw the flashlight in front of the passage just now.
I saw a bunch of white bars rushing along the light. The dust wind grabbed me by the collar, dragged and pulled, and immediately ran again.
After running for half an hour, I collapsed to the ground exhausted, panting for air. Dusty Wind also squatted on the ground panting, looking in the direction he was running from. After confirming that there was no danger, he sat down on the ground.
"Holy, it's something, the same shroud for mummies." I gasped.
"It's supposed to be a fungal thing." Dusty Wind took out another small flashlight from his bag.
We didn't dare to stay too long, and after walking for a while, we were finally able to walk up straight. Then there were traces of stone-paved tombs and artificial masonry.
"Did we enter another pyramid?"
"Quite possibly." Dustwind held up his flashlight and looked around.
After that, they walked for nearly half a day, and finally approached Brother Dong's position.
At this time, I took a look at the tomb, and the surrounding walls were covered with frescoes. There are totems of some animals such as snakes, eagles, cats, etc. Obviously, this tomb is much more upscale than the one we walked before. If nothing else, this should be the main cemetery. Dustwind and I didn't slow down and kept going. After turning a corner, we saw a bright light ahead.